Jessica Demos sat down, and you will see where all this error of those who accuse pleasure and praise pain comes from, I will open the whole matter, and I will explain the very things that were said by that discoverer of truth and, as it were, the architect of the happy life. For no one despises or hates or flees pleasure itself because it is pleasure, but because great pains follow those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason.

Nor is there anyone who loves, pursues, or wishes to attain pain itself because it is pain, but because it is not and never will be.